Designing an educational game: Case study of 'Europe 2045'

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5080 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-16

  Šisler, Vít ^a,c   Brom, Cyril ^b,c  

^a Charles University in Prague   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Generation Europe   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Educational games; Game design; Game based learning; Immersive environments; Serious games

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; TEACHING;

CASE STUDIES; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL GAMES; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; EDUTAINMENT; GAME-BASED LEARNING; GROUP DECISION MAKING (GDM); HEIDELBERG (CO); HIGH SCHOOLS; SCIENCE COURSES; SOCIAL ISSUES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 47849083961     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69744-2_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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